Apparently you can curl your hair with tampons and pads

As if we don't already spend enough money on tampons and sanitary pads for our periods, apparently we need to buy more to CURL OUR HAIR. Because curling tongs and rollers are so last season...

You may have heard about the new way to curl your hair with toilet paper, which is brilliantly bonkers enough already. But now, beauty vloggers have discovered that you can also utilise your sanitary collection.

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Beauty vlogger MakeupWearables posted this bizarre video to YouTube, in which she demonstrates how to create sanitary pad curls without using heat. Resourceful.

She claims that using pads is a great technique, because they soak up water and excess oil from your hair. Hmm.

To be fair, the pads did create some pretty cool curls, and all without any heated damage.

And if you're more of a tampon kinda gal, why not try beauty vlogger Breland's trick:

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Because tampons are obviously a lot smaller than pads, they create a tighter curl. If you're after Goldilocks' curly hair, a box of tampons will give you the desired ringlets.

But here's a heads up if you're considering trying out this technique: you have to sleep with pads or tampons attached to your head overnight (which sounds uncomfortable, and just, eww).

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